Health education film from the early 1920's in the United States. Shows effects of gonorrhea and syphilis in the children of disease sufferers in the United States. Contrasting scenes of healthy children playing, and healthy happy 1920's families with wife, husband, and boy and girl children are shown. Opens with a sickly infant suffering from syphilis and birth defects passed on from the father. Girls born blind due to gonorrhea are seen playing with a ball. The disease has been passed on from the father to the mother. Contrasting scenes show healthy children as they climb a stone wall and tree. A girl holds flowers and boy and girl children gather nearby, all wearing early 20th century 1920s era clothing. A man proposes marriage to a woman as they sit on the steps of a house. He puts an engagement ring on her finger. Husband in suit enters a backyard. His son runs toward him happily to greet him. His wife and another child approach to greet him. Hammock in the background. Children play with their mother and father. Boys somersault on the lawn.
A dramatization shows Dr. O'Leary discussing diagnosis, treatment and general care taken in syphilis in the United States. Dr. O'Leary tells an engaged couple about syphilis. The girl clarifies her doubts. Doctor James R. McCord advises her for a medical examination for syphilis before marriage.
Dr. James R. McCord gives a lecture in the United States on the diagnosis, treatment and general care taken during syphilis. Dr. James R. McCord from Emory University speaks on the treatment of syphilis in prospective mothers. A chart explains the outcome of latent untreated syphilis during pregnancy. Dr. McCord says that syphilis should be diagnosed during pregnancy by routine blood test. A chart depicts 95% healthy babies without syphilis and 5% with congenital syphilis. A 5 month pregnant woman seated in a chair for the diagnosis of congenital syphilis. Blood pressure of the woman is taken. A chemist works in a laboratory. A pregnant woman is examined by a doctor. A sign on a poster reads "Syphilis kills babies, Control syphilis". The poster depicts that proper treatment of the expectant mother prevents infection in the unborn child. A woman gives instructions about the prevention of syphilis.
Soviet Foreign Minister V.M.Molotov secretly visits Washington DC, during World War II (May/June 1942) A four engine Soviet TB-7 (a.k.a Petlyakov Pe-8) bomber with the crew standing beneath its wing. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, Soviet Ambassador Maksim M. Litvinov, and Soviet Foreign Minister, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov stand near the door of the airplane. A Soviet officer talks. Soviet crew members climb into the airplane. Molotov bids goodbye to General Marshall and the others. Molotov then boards the airplane. The Soviet bomber taxis out, for the return journey to the USSR (which will proceed via Gander ,Newfoundland).
Miss Helen Keller's development of the sense of touch to understand what is being said to her. Helen Adams Keller (first deaf blind person to graduate from college) feels the lips of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan. Miss Keller's teacher Miss Anne Sullivan Macy in the background.
Henry Ford and Mrs. Clara Ford at Fair Lane in Dearborn, Michigan. Henry and Mrs. Clara Ford walk down through a garden at Fair Lane. A house in the background.
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